Pool's open secret

In answer to Valerie Halton, Conservative councillor for Hutton ward (Polling Days Highs 'N' Lows, 10.5.07) on the Guisborough baths in which she says, "now Labour will intend to find an excuse to close them, so the maintenance budget can be spent on other areas of the borough".

In answer to Valerie Halton, Conservative councillor for Hutton ward (Polling Days Highs 'N' Lows, 10.5.07) on the Guisborough baths in which she says, "now Labour will intend to find an excuse to close them, so the maintenance budget can be spent on other areas of the borough". This is typical Tory post-election scare mongering.

All I will say on this is in the Labour manifesto, to quote the penultimate paragraph in chapter 14. "We are committed to keeping ALL our swimming pools open".

The Labour Government is committed to reducing child obesity and adult obesity and closing leisure centres flies in the face of this policy.

CLLR GEORGE R DUNNING, Leader of the Labour Group, Redcar & Cleveland Council